There's Almost Nothing Jay Leno's Garage Can't Fix

What do you when your 1914 fire engine gets a hole punched in its engine block? Go on Craigslist? What if Mercedes-Benz Classic wants to charge you $490 for an air conditioner knob on your 1971 Mercedes-Benz 3.5? Pay the greedy bastards? And what happens when your Brookland racer's 1921 aero-engine needs new hand-made water jackets, because the original steel ones rotted away? For Jay Leno, these are everyday situations—and problems that his dedicated crew of artisans and mechanics have handily solved.

Modern technology comes to the rescue of machines that weren't designed to keep ticking in 2016. A broken block of a 20-liter four-cylinder out of a 1914 Christie front-wheel drive fire engine is no problem; a new 3D printing process can take care of your vintage Mercedes plastic needs; and with the right people onboard, you can fabricate almost anything out of metal in-house. Bringing a bunch of pre-war bikes and cars back to life, like a 1953 Cunningham with its one-piece fenders, an even rarer Frazier-Nash with a 1.5-liter six-cylinder twin-cam hemi, or a 1914 Detroit Electric battery-powered hot rod still takes years of hard work, but Jay's crew is on top of it.

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